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In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.

A "yearbook" documents the U.S. military occupation of Nagasaki in the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

A first of its kind Library of Congress project aims to identify, catalogue, and preserve America’s broadcast history. 

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

Even the most mundane of objects associated with the Founding Father have a story.

The room at One Police Plaza, jammed to the ceiling with filing cabinets and boxes, and reeking of vinegar, held about 180,000 images ranging from 1914 to 1972.

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother

A documentary about an extraordinary hidden treasure and the reclusive soul that protected it for years.

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.

As Buffalo Bill's performers, they were walking stereotypes. But a New York photographer showed the humans beneath the headdresses.

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.

We hold this truth to be self-evident: John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence was too big.

An excerpt from a recently discovered memoir of World War I, "The Burning of the World."

Firecrackers are essentially un-American, even though we associate them with our most deeply patriotic celebration, the Fourth of July.

An early 20th-century scrapbook put together by Company 62 of the New York City Fire Department.

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.

In 1918, Tom "Shotgun" Rogers earned himself a piece of baseball immortality—by killing a former teammate with a fastball.

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past, and who we are today.

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.

Images of decaying daguerreotypes whose photographic fixing was subject to decay like the people they captured.

Victorian "Moustache Cups" ensure that one can drink while keeping their mustache dry.

The 42 minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

On the introduction of the Franklin stove into the American home and the ensuing stove revolution.

What winter was like before the stove revolution, and the tension between comfort and family values.

Geisel did not begin his career writing children stories, but selling products.

You will never think about the 36th president the same way again.